Goal

Enhance the national food systems pathways

FROM Commitment: Support game changers to food systems

Government / Yemen

Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

Partner organisations:
Country government at any administrative level: Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery Wealth, Ministry of Water and Environment
Donor organisation, including philanthropic organisations: WHO, UNICEF, FAO/ WFP
Date made: 08 Dec 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Verification status Verified Find out more
NAF SMARTness index High Find out more
Targeted location National - All governorates
Targeted population Overall population (all ages, both sexes)
Primary indicator Number of implemented national food systems pathways
Primary indicator baseline 0
Primary indicator target 11 (the targeted number of pathways is 21 but the realistic goal by 2030 is 50% of this)
Duration December, 2021 - December, 2030

Goal action plan

build and strengthen the capacity of all stakeholders to enhance the food systems, through:

1. Developing and strengthening national and subnational coordination mechanisms for food systems platforms and stakeholder;

2. Support value chain addition to local agricultural products such as Horticulture, Diary, Cereals, Fisheries etc

3. Enhance and adopt nutrition-sensitive interventions to prevent child malnutrition especially to reduce stunting levels;

4. Build capacities of national codex programmes/structures and enhance their participation globally to codex alimentarius meeting and through addressing the weaknesses or gaps; develop national food standards based on codex texts as appropriate; a have well-functioning Codex Contact Point. Develop and operationalize food safety multisectoral action plan in the health sector

5. A joint multi-sector needs analysis before, during and after a humanitarian response and to include wider measures of nutrition need and progress. These measures may include and not limited to:

- commitments to measuring minimum dietary diversity for women and girls; and

- measures to assess the impact of seasonal food availability patterns on infant and young child feeding practices and household dietary diversity.

6. Strengthen the capacity of national and sub-national staff and community to address all forms of malnutrition.

Progress will be assessed by the government every two years.

Nutrition Action Classification

Enabling

  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Leadership and governance
  • Research monitoring and data

Policy

  • Food environment
  • Food supply chain
  • Consumer knowledge
  • Nutrition care services

Impact

  • Undernutrition
  • Diet
  • Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Food and nutrition security

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